Receiving the Evcharist is our weekly feature where we pair choice albums with our favorite libations. Drink from the cup of heresy. This week’s offering: Raspberry Bulbs’ Before the Age of Mirrors and Pizza Port Brewing Company’s Surfari IPA.
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The Nine Circles Audio Thing: Exhumed was October 2019’s Album of the Month!
Since Episode 31 of the Nine Circles Audio Thing is for October’s Album of the Month, it’s fitting we’re chatting about Exhumed and their latest deathgrind masterpiece Horror. I mean, what better month to wax on blood, guts, death metal, and all those sorts of dark things! Plus, we had an almost full house which offered tons of viewpoints and tons of great discussion about this album and so much more.
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Initial Descent: August 11 – 17, 2019
Last week was bit of a blur what with all the news items and “theories,” Tool takes and thinkpieces keep coming in by the truck load, and Gatecreeper dropped a ballad off their upcoming album…a ballad. New week and new metal, so let’s do that.
Cerebral Rot go the caveman death metal route (in this case, a very good thing) on their debut, Devourment break a six year silence with their trademark brutal-techy-slammy death metal, Unburnt unleash blackened death metal hell across their four track EP, and Dialith bring unbridled symphonic power on their debut full length. Focus on this week and forget last week but don’t put away the popcorn just yet.
CANTO: Batushka, Monolord, GosT, and More
I’m gathering that I’m not supposed to like both Batushka things happening. I’m also gathering that I don’t care.
- This one’s for Dan, even though he may already be aware of it. GosT has announced the next studio album, Valediction, will be out on October 4th. Furthermore, for those of you in Europe, you can catch GosT on tour with Mayhem and Gaahls Wyrd in November.
- Speaking of Batushka, they’ll be headlining some North American dates this coming November and December. Tickets go on sale Friday. I plan on dabbling. Oh yes I do.
- Monolord have set a release date of September 20th for their Relapse Records debut album, called No Comfort. You can check out a new song called “The Bastard Son” now, and catch them on tour in Europe in October and in the U.S. in November. So much Monolord. Very good.
- Let’s check out a new song from Israeli thrash band Shredhead. The song is called “Unmarked” and it features captured footage from a recent tour in Japan. It’s quite good.
“Ein Bier… bitte.”
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CANTO: Drab Majesty, Devourment, Metal & Beer Fest, and More
I’m bored.
- Devourment are set to release their fifth full-length album, titled Obscene Majesty, on August 16th via Relapse Records. A new track from this album is available for your streaming pleasure now, and it is called “Cognitive Sedation Butchery”.
- Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Los Angeles dropped some names that will be performing this December. Included: Possessed, Nails, Schammasch, Evoken, Spirit Adrift… God DAMMIT I want to go so badly.
- And on a more somber note, Dave Mustaine announced that he is currently undergoing treatment for throat cancer. News you never, ever want to hear. It sounds like his doctors have a plan, so fingers crossed he can fight through this.
- I do like it when Drab Majesty drops a new song and video. This one is for “Oxytocin”. A reminder that Modern Mirror will be out on July 12th.
“Ein Bier… bitte.”
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